Aaron Rodgers turned to another legendary athlete's recovery for inspiration when he was bouncing back from his own torn Achilles.
During an appearance on the I Can Fly podcast (h/t Dennis Waszak Jr. of the Associated Press), the New York Jets quarterback said he thought his career was over after suffering a torn Achilles in the team's 2023 season opener.
However, he said "the doomsday of, like, my career is over kind of started to go away" when he researched the surgery Kobe Bryant underwent after the Los Angeles Lakers star tore his Achilles in April 2013.